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Best Epithet Poems

Below are the all-time best Epithet poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of epithet poems written by PoetrySoup members


Epithet: Rain Girl
Here, beneath the sky of my mind,
in the swaying hammock of my heart, 
strung between tall palms of loss and love -
lies a child's form...

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Categories: epithet, brother, encouraging, girl, growth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Autobiography of a Brook
You've visited me after a long time: Remember; once, I was brimming with might? Named babbling brook, revered as a singing deity, how blissful was...

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Categories: epithet, care, caregiving, change, childhood,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Pen Meet Paper
What in the ink whorl is papièr churl going on?

Ill quill vapors are trying to victimize me,
vex prose don’t belong
Word saber player haters trying to...

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Categories: epithet, metaphor, philosophy, psychological, slam,
Form: Alliteration
Whence Wisdom
WHENCE WISDOM

Sins of youth, are not rare, I confess to many as mine
Include brazen claim we knew more than last generation
We may come to see...

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Categories: epithet, age, wisdom,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Which Are the Best Ways
Which are the best ways
to appreciate anybody’s love and realize
how wonderful it can be for many...
if there's enough sincerity?

The remorseful words I never spoke
to be...

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Categories: epithet, appreciation, character, courage, devotion,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim 245 of the Thirukkural By Thiruvalluvar
The Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim Number 245 (taken at random) of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classic on Ethics by Thiruvalluvar 

allal arulaalvaarkku illai valivalangum

mallalmaa...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epithet, education, metaphor, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Couplet
We'Re Just Brown
Grandma’s brown knuckles crinkled 
As she gently peeled the heirloom 
Potatoes, discarding the brown-
Skinned strips into the garbage
Bin. She was at home here, alive 
And...

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Categories: epithet, grandmother,
Form: Sestina
Animal
When describing bad behavior 
Or even a law breaker

The worst epithet humans think for those not admirable
Is to place on the miscreant a label of...

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Categories: epithet, addiction, animal, metaphor,
Form: Couplet
For a National Endowment of the Humanities Project - Social Theological Studies
THEORY
The truth is that we are the people of North America mixed by the blood that existed via the birth of a nation.  We...

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Categories: epithet, bible, birth, business, culture,
Form: Epic
Black,Red and Gold
BLACK,RED and GOLD

Location---SOMEWHERE IN KÖNIGSBERG 1945 APRIL 9
Scene---A Dying German Agent/A Soldier`s thoughts/reflections just before death 

On this periphery of life
Let blue jeans of my...

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Categories: epithet, death, farewell, fire, patriotic,
Form: Vaasokht
Premium Member A Sunset
Along the shore a red feathered sunset
As the sun falls into amber silence
To leave the day's beautiful epithet
The eyes turn peaceful in compliance
Shall I stay...

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Categories: epithet, beautiful,
Form: Sonnet
Ghost Orchid
what makes the heart feel for something it can't touch?
his tears caused contractions for his heart to pulse
floundered, looking for loves heartache to clutch
whimsical solace...

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Categories: epithet, beauty, betrayal, courage, emotions,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Gossamer Threads
Your soul survives the kiss of death
continuing when life’s passed on.
And charisma and persona
morph into photos when you’re gone.

And though time writes your epithet
fate decides...

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Categories: epithet, destiny, encouraging, faith, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member sugar, sweet -
YOU ...
small, furry,
soft, warm, joyful,
sweet little creature,
came to me in a shadow ...
a time when my heart ran cold,
kicked far down the road by sorrow,
and...

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Categories: epithet, animal, cat, cute, love,
Form: Shape
Making All Things New
There was a yesterday,  pulling at my mind,
disclosing the expected mundane self
reacting,  not inclined to throw the clay
upon the wheel, to love without...

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Categories: epithet, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs